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Only we who believe it are able to enter God’s place of rest. As God said,

“I was angry and made a promise:
    ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’” (A)

But God’s work was finished from the time he made the world. Yes, somewhere in the Scriptures he talked about the seventh day of the week. He said, “So on the seventh day God rested from all his work.”[a] But in the Scripture above God said, “They will never enter my place of rest.”

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 4:4 Quote from Gen. 2:2.

Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,

“So I declared on oath in my anger,
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”[a](A)

And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world. For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.”[b](B) And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 4:3 Psalm 95:11; also in verse 5
  2. Hebrews 4:4 Gen. 2:2